8. 7. 08.

Dear Comrade Huysmans!

Thank you very much for your courteous letter. I shall communicate your reply to our comrades in Russia, and I hope that they will send you shortly the remaining part of our report.

As regards the payment of 1600 fr., I can assure you that the Central Committee of our party will pay this sum, probably [no later] than within a few...**

* - Medical school. Editor.

** One word is illegible. Editor.

[A Plenum of the Central Committee] has been convened*, and I am forced to await its decision. The sum will undoubtedly be paid without delay.

Accept, dear comrade, my fraternal greetings.

N. Lenin

in French in 1962

in the journal "Cahiers du Monde

Russe et Sovietique" No. 4

Published in Russian for the

first time, according to the journal

text

Translated from French

Sent from Geneva to Brussels

First published